Photographer Ronnie Ackling and his depiction  of  Dudley through the lens of his camera. 

Liz Berry has a wonderful ability to bring the Black Country dialect to life with her poems.

Paul was born and raised in the heavily industrialised Black Country and did not consciously choose to become an artist. But at some point in his life the urge to create was so great that he had little choice in the matter. 

Photographer Martin Parr returns to working with moving images in this wonderfully engaging documentary about Teddy Gray’s sweet factory in Dudley.

Black Country Stories Martin Parr ‘Black Country Stories’ was a four-year photography project by Martin Parr, the definitive chronicler of modern age ‘Britishness’.  

Head Brewer of the award-winning Fixed Wheel Brewery Scott Povey can often be spotted with his trademark woolly hat either at his Blackheath brewery or at many of the beer festivals he attends. 

Felicity Hammond's art education began in Stourbridge, firstly at King Edward VI College, and then at Stourbridge College where she undertook an art foundation course.

Emma is a poetry slam champion and performs regularly at spoken word nights far and wide. 

Printmaker Ella Flavell AKA Burin & Plate grew up in Pensnett and her family have always lived around the Black Country and the Dudley area.  

If you live in or around the Black Country then you will have found it hard to miss the infamous Doreen Tipton.

John Myers is a landscape and portrait photographer and painter. Between 1973 and 1983 he photographed mundane aspects of everyday life in the Dudley borough.

Laura Pannack’s photo series ‘Island Symmetries’ captures nostalgic imagery that focuses on the friendships formed  in a small community on wasteland called ‘The Cracker’ that stands between two estates – ‘Tibby’ and 'The lost city’.

Movie soundtrack composer and one time Pop Will eat Itself frontman Clint Mansell has put together a Dudley JB’s playlist consisting of A selection of iconic tunes played at the legendary Black Country venue.

Rachel Massey is a Black Country based mixed media artist and illustrator. Her art practice primarily explores ideas of industrialisation, deterioration and research into the theories of the sublime.

It was the early 1960s when documentarian and Sunday Times photographer John Bulmer set out to chronicle life in the then grey and bleak Black Country. Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson's ethic of understanding life through photography, John captured Dudley and the lifeblood of the region with all its unflinching beauty.

Emily Benton is a creative designer based in the Black Country. She combines her illustrative skills and love for local accents to create bold, playful and fun hand lettered designs.

Dudley’s most notable painter Percy Shakespeare was born in 1906 in the slums of the Kates Hill area of Dudley, the fourth of eight children.

Constructed between 1935 and 1937, the 12 structures comprising the iconic Brutalist complex were designed by the Tecton practice, a London-based association founded in 1932 by Berthold Lubetkin, that was highly instrumental in bringing Modernist architecture to Britain.

Tom Hicks is a contemporary photographer who places words at the centre of his work. His current project, Black Country Type, is a photographic exploration of the post-industrial landscape of the region.